Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

These are the official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The race was held on Thursday 28 September 2000, starting at 10:45h.

Medalists

Gold	Wang Liping  China
Silver	Kjersti Plätzer  Norway
Bronze	María Vasco  Spain

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics
World record	Tatyana Gudkova (RUS)	1:25:18	19 May 2000	Moscow, Russia
Olympic record	New event after the 10 km was contested previously

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
01 !	Wang Liping	China	1:29.05	OR
02 !	Kjersti Plätzer	Norway	1:29.33
03 !	María Vasco	Spain	1:30.23
4	Erica Alfridi	Italy	1:31.25
5	María Guadalupe Sánchez	Mexico	1:31.33
6	Norica Câmpean	Romania	1:31.50
7	Kerry Saxby-Junna	Australia	1:32.02
8	Tatyana Gudkova	Russia	1:32.35
9	Nataliya Misyulya	Belarus	1:33.08
10	Gillian O'Sullivan	Ireland	1:33.10
11	Athina Papayianni	Greece	1:33.14	PB
12	Valentyna Savchuk	Ukraine	1:33.22
13	Ana Maria Groza	Romania	1:33.38
14	Susana Feitor	Portugal	1:33.53
15	Yuan Yufang	Malaysia	1:34.19	SB
16	Kristina Saltanovič	Lithuania	1:34.24
17	Michelle Rohl	United States	1:34.26
18	Mária Urbanik	Hungary	1:34.45
19	Beate Gummelt	Germany	1:34.59
20	Encarna Granados	Spain	1:35.06
21	Svetlana Tolstaya	Kazakhstan	1:35.19
22	Nora Leksir	France	1:35.29
23	Fatiha Ouali	France	1:35.35
24	Vira Zozulya	Ukraine	1:35.43
25	Kim Mi-Jung	South Korea	1:36.09	NR
26	Mara Ibañez	Mexico	1:36.17
27	Eva Pérez	Spain	1:36.35
28	Valentina Tsybulskaya	Belarus	1:36.44
29	Anikó Szebenszky	Hungary	1:36.46
30	Jolanta Dukure	Latvia	1:36.54
31	Sonata Milušauskaitė	Lithuania	1:37.14
32	Larisa Ramazanova	Belarus	1:37.39
33	Lisa Kehler	Great Britain	1:37.47
34	Ivis Martínez	El Salvador	1:38.07
35	Olive Loughnane	Ireland	1:38.23
36	Khristina Kokotou	Greece	1:38.52
37	Anita Liepiņa	Latvia	1:39.17
38	Chen Yueling	United States	1:39.36
39	Lisa Sheridan-Paolini	Australia	1:40.57
40	Yelena Kuznetsova	Kazakhstan	1:42.45
41	Teresita Collado	Guatemala	1:43.28
42	Geovana Irusta	Bolivia	1:43.34
43	Zuzana Blažeková	Slovakia	1:44.03
44	Debbi Lawrence	United States	1:47.20
45	Bahia Boussad	Algeria	1:52.50
—	Kathrin Born-Boyde	Germany	DNF
—	Aida İsayeva	Azerbaijan	DNF
—	Olga Polyakova	Russia	DNF
—	Katarzyna Radtke	Poland	DNF
—	Annarita Sidoti	Italy	DNF
—	Maya Sazonova	Kazakhstan	DNF
—	Irina Stankina	Russia	DNF
—	Liu Hongyu	China	DSQ
—	Graciela Mendoza	Mexico	DSQ
—	Janice McCaffrey	Canada	DSQ
—	Elisabetta Perrone	Italy	DSQ
—	Jane Saville	Australia	DSQ

See also

• 1997 Women's World Championships 10km Walk (Athens)
• 1998 Women's European Championships 10km Walk (Budapest)
• 1999 Women's World Championships 20km Walk (Seville)
• 2000 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 2001 Women's World Championships 20km Walk (Edmonton)
• 2002 Women's European Championships 20km Walk (Munich)
• 2003 Women's World Championships 20km Walk (Paris)

References

• Official Report
• Results
• sports-reference
• Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics